Non-indigenous specialists leaving Uzbekistan
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MOSCOW. Nov 10 (Interfax) –Uzbek people's deputy, speaker of the Muborak City Council of People's Deputies Murad Jurayev dismissed official claims that the number of people leaving Uzbekistan is no higher than the average natural migration rates.
A total of 234 workers, including 134 non-indigenous ones, have lost their jobs at the Mubarak Gas Processing Plant since the beginning of the year, Jurayev said in an interview with Pravda Vostoka newspaper. Russian-speaking workers fear the absence of safety and equality guarantees, he said.
"Excesses are being committed when introducing the state language, and if a person does not know it, this becomes a reason for blaming him and serves as the main pretext for firing" Russian-speaking specialists from state agencies and organizations, he said.
Jurayev suggested immediately adopting a program to eliminate the reasons for the emigration of Russian-speaking people. "No state has yet benefited from a brain drain," he said.